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What if a single decision changed the course of history?
The podcast A Different America explores alternative perspectives on key moments in history — especially the age of the discovery of the New World. Each episode examines what might have happened if events had unfolded differently: if Columbus had served another nation, if great powers had made different choices, or if crucial decisions had been accepted or rejected in ways that reshaped the modern world.
The series combines documentary-style analysis with carefully constructed alternative scenarios. It is grounded in real historical facts, political contexts, and the possibilities of the time, and then explores how Europe, the Americas, and global civilization might have developed differently.
This is not fiction without foundation. It is a thoughtful exploration of how little it might have taken for today’s world to be entirely different.
Because a different America means a di